The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-04
LIFE IN VIENNA.
Jerky Description of Scenes in the Inter-
esting Austrian Capital.

esting Austrian Capital.
Buffalo News
Women here carry hods and mix mortar
Peculiar class From the provinces Wear
boots Practical dress. But not ornamental.
Seven different costumes daily the
streets. Laborers at noon lie down and sleep
the pavements. Ditto in the parks on the grass.
Both sexes seen lying side by side. No keep
off the grass" at every turning Polish Jew fire.
quent. In black gowns, reaching to the heels,
high hats, and long corkscrew curs. Look ike
Othello. Big dogs drawing hand-carts. Street
won't stop for you. Only at certain places.
Indicated by sign-post on the track. The tub
the universal vessel to carry things in.
Oval shape. One stave longer than
the rest. So that it be bound on the
carriers hack Carries ali the water up the
six or seven pairs of stone stairs in the Vienna
houses Clean clothes ditto for wash. Sep
arate shops for brandy, beer ana wine. Peasant
a spree carries a green twig stuck in his hat
band 10 indicate to the Vienna public his present
mental and moral condition Hacks hung low
the wheel Drivers in uniformi Every
things in uniform here Fares low. Ten cents
carries you from Dombach to Leopoldstadt.
Suburban villages five or six miles distant EN-
peror and Empress are frequently seen driving
on the streets No fuss; all hats go off
tries ditto, in chronic condition
of saluting officers. Flsas abundant
Everybody eats at the restaurant. Vienna is
all restaurant on the ground floor. Little home
cooking Is done Meange and rolls are the uni
versal breakfast Melange is half coffee and
half hot milk, always brought you in tall
tumber with big table spoon. Living here Is
very public. If you hire - the chances
are you must pass through mebody's bed room
get TO it, have pass through
yours Female help Indifferent or oblivious to
gentlemen lodgers. come right in at all hours
and without knocking, when on duty.
gsStoves are like monuments, nine feet high,
covered with porcelain. Tbs furnace holds
about two quarts of coal. The rest is monu-
Handsome men. good shapes, full
chests. fine base voices. A pleasure to sit in
azah hnar "A off 1olo
charge call the trains. Handsome women ditto.
Every body out the'street and shopping by
or 9 in the morning Nap at noon Gardens
full of families dining in open air at p. NJ They
go it till 9. Music. flowers, statuary all about.
Eating not done gulp More happiness to
the square yard Newspapers small Outside
world disposed of in about twenty lines. Lots
of small comic illustrated papers. .Trink
halles" on every corner. Round pagodas Girl
inside No room for more. Sells lemonade,
orangeade soda water, and other light fogey
fluid People here always swallowing some
thing
Elevator at hotel Big fuss over it, Two
men in uniform TO RUE 1t. Pace. mile an hour
Beds all single EVERYBODY seems to sleep single
here. One more bed Top of bed quilt. Very
light, full of feathers; in green silk bag
Barracks everywhere. SIX stories Full of
soldiers. Soldiers everywhere. Drilling every.
where. Drumming everywhere footing every
where. Soldiers IMAGINING past hotel at 5 in
the morning. Always getting ready to kill